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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

Publications by Division

Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2026

Pritoni, Marco, Anand Prakash, Lazlo Paul, Weiping Huang, Roman Kukharchuk, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Matthias Sulzer, and Michael Wetter."Digitalizing Building Control Deployment for Retrofits: A Case Study on Demand-Flexible Control Sequences."IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference 12 (2026). DOI

2025

Granderson, Jessica, Armando Casillas, Marco Pritoni, and Weiping Huang."An open control sequence specification to scale building demand flexibility via analytics software."Energy and Buildings 337 (2025) 115616. DOI

Grant, Peter, Noah Gabriel, Weiping Huang, and Tao Yang."Field Demonstration of Cost Minimizing Load Shifting Controls for 120V Heat Pump Water Heaters in Different Pricing Scenarios."2025 ASHRAE Annual Conference (2025). DOI

2024

Huang, Weiping, Armando Casillas, Marco Pritoni, Shreya Agarwal, Rongxin Yin, and Anand Prakash."Analyzing The Impact Of Energy Efficient ASHRAE Guideline 36 Control Sequences On Demand Flexibility Potential Of Commercial Buildings: A Multi-Region Analysis."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Casillas, Armando, Thomas Defauw, Sang woo Ham, Dre Helmns, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Weiping Huang, Peter Grant, and Marco Pritoni."Demystifying Thermal Energy Storage Integrated Heat Pump Systems: Development of Generalized Sizing and Control Algorithms for Demand Flexibility."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Pritoni, Marco, Michael Wetter, Lazlo Paul, Weiping Huang, Steven Bushby, Parastoo Delgoshaei, Michael Poplawski, Avijit Saha, Gabe Fierro, Matt Steen, Joel Bender, and Paul Ehrlich."Digital and Interoperable: The future of building automation is on the horizon. What's in it for me?."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Casillas, Armando, Jessica Granderson, Yimin Chen, John House, Guanjing Lin, Weiping Huang, Guhan Velmurugan, and Marco Pritoni."Innovating the next generation of commercial smart building software."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Pereira, Flavia De Andrade, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Weiping Huang, Conor Shaw, Susana Martin-Toral, Donal Finn, and James O’ Donnell."Enabling portable demand flexibility control applications in virtual and real buildings."Journal of Building Engineering 86 (2024) 108645. DOI